Playing for progress

Policy Advocacy in Sport for Development

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4615416
AutoresL Moustakas (0000-0003-3388-4407, University of Applied Sciences Kufstein, autor de correspondencia), Sarah Carney (0000-0002-5267-3595, Munster Technological University), Sally-Ann J Fischer, Sebastian Fischer (0000-0002-9711-0382, German Sport University Cologne), Alana Richardson (0009-0000-8945-1390, German Sport University Cologne), Karen Petry (0000-0003-2666-4529, German Sport University Cologne), Arnost Svoboda (0000-0002-0900-6244, Palacký University Olomouc), Ansley Hofmann, Albrecht W Hofmann (0000-0002-2446-231X), Ben Sander (0000-0002-5629-8593)
Año2025
Volumen7
Páginas1546222-1546222
Fecha de publicación2025-03-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFrontiers in Sports and Active Living (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2624-9367 • E-ISSN: 2624-9367
EditorialFrontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fspor.2025.1546222
PMID40181930
OpenAlexW4408417482
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas29

Sport for development (SFD) has emerged as a significant field of activity and has increasingly been critiqued for focusing on micro-level initiatives as a remedy to larger scale social or structural issues. This has led numerous scholars to propose more political meso or macro level approaches to deliver improved, sustainable outcomes. One such solution involves direct engagement in policy advocacy to support, and influence, policies that can directly benefit participants in SFD programmes. Against this background, our paper maps policy advocacy in the SFD field. Using results generated from a survey initiated in the context of a pan-European project, we map out the policy advocacy areas, activities and relationships within the sector. Our results show that most organisations engage in some form of advocacy, but much of this appears limited to the kind of self-interested advocacy that is designed to secure funding for organisational activities. Based on this, we argue that SFD actors should also engage in more progressive advocacy and suggest how research, as well as educational programming, can support this shift

Context (archaeology · Economic system · Economics · Field (mathematics · Macro level · Policy advocacy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scale (ratio · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Administration · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society